• DocumentCode
    1685550
  • Title

    Spontaneous symmetry breaking of cavity polariton solitons due to pseudospin dynamics

  • Author

    Werner, Albrecht ; Egorov, Oleg ; Lederer, Falk

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Condensed Matter Theor. & Solid State Opt., Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena, Jena, Germany
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We study the influence of the exciton pseudospin dynamics on the existence and stability of polariton solitons in a semiconductor microcavity. We find the spontaneous symmetry breaking of polarization and formation of vector polariton solitons.
  • Keywords
    excitons; light polarisation; micro-optics; microcavities; optical solitons; polaritons; cavity polariton solitons; exciton pseudospin dynamics; light polarization; semiconductor microcavity; spontaneous symmetry breaking; vector polariton solitons; Cavity resonators; Excitons; Microcavities; Optical diffraction; Photonics; Solitons; Vectors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6326866